Laravel unit testing class not found error

Question

I'm trying to do unit tests with laravel but get the following error. I've not got to testing the function. In my editor, I see the reference to the class correctly, however phpunit can't find it.

 Error: Class 'GoCardlessCheck' not found

my test looks like this

  use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\WithoutMiddleware;
  use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseMigrations;
  use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseTransactions;
  use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;



class GoCardlessTest extends TestCase
{
/**
 * A basic test example.
 *
 * @return void
 */
 public function testExample()
 {
    $acc = new GoCardlessCheck();

    $acc->CheckAccount('bob','mould','909090','57-77-90');

 }

}

abe678 abe678 · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-01T14:45:59

I had the same issue randomly occur for me, and this is what fixed it.

First, ensure that you're including a use path\to\GoCardlessCheck statement. If that path is in the tests namespace, make sure that you have

"autoload-dev": {
    "classmap": [
        "tests/"
    ]
}

in your composer.json file.

If all that is there, try running composer update.

After doing this the error went away, and my tests ran properly again.

Laravel unit testing class not found error

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